Maybe some writers are just too self-absorbed to get this one right. All too often when editing, I see sentences like The boss handed the project off to Laura and I.
What if Laura wasn’t part of the equation, though? You wouldn’t write The boss handed the project off to I. Instead, you’d write The boss handed the project off to me.
If using the word to, use me rather than I. If “you” are the subject of the sentence, then use I as in I handed the project off to Laura and that flunky writer.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.